The lab-leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has leapt from ultra-right conspiracy theory to respectable opinion almost as fast as the virus itself allegedly flew from bats to humans. In Unherd, Bret Weinstein argues that the virus turning out to be man-made would be welcome news. Hopping across naturally from bats would, Weinstein contends, be vastly scarier.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


